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Page 2 THE TAR HEEL The , Leading Southern College Tri-Weekly , Newspaper '. Member of North Carolina Collegiate Press Association Published three times every week of the college year and is the official news paper of the Publications Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel HiU, N. C. Subscription price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for the college year. Offices on first floor of New Building, Telephone 318-Red. West Kntered as second-class mail matter at the Post Office, Chapel Hill, N. C. H. N. Prker.................. Editor Harold Seburn . .. Businesg Manager Editorial Department Managing "Editor t J. T. Madry Tuesday Issue P.N.Olive Thursday Issue F. P. Eller Saturday Issue C. W. Bazemore . I.. N. Byrd 2 A tixf ant-Editor Sport Editor J. O. Allison I. F. Ascby K. Barwick J. K. Bobbitt, Jr. H. P. Brandis D. D. Carroll W. G. Cherry Ben Eaton Eunice F.rvin ' K. K. Fowler C. I Keel, Jr. Staff J. B. Lewis , R. R, Little E. It. McKethan. Jr. U H. McPherson W. W. Neal, Jr. W. D. Perry W. P. Ragan I. N. Robbins C. F. Rouse ' S. B. Shepherd, Jr. A. B. White ' Business Department Sarah Boyd ..,. Aist to But. Mgr. T. V. Moore Advertising Department Chas. A. Kelson Advertising Manager Byron Holmes S. Linton Smith . , J. C. Uzzell, Jr. Circulation Department Marvin Fowler Circulation Manager nick Slagle John Deaton Tom Raney Reg Schmitt You can purchase" any article adver tised in The Tar Heel with perfect safety because everything it adver tises is guaranteed to be as repre sented. The Tar Heel solicits adver tising from reputable concerns only. Saturday, January 9, 1926 UNCLEAN . The same issue of the Biblical Recorder that' praises the Tar Heel for its candidness takes the Carolina Magazine, the Tar Heel's sister publication, severely to task on ac count of its candidness as exhibited in a certain article appearing in the issue of last December. The coin cidental appearance of the two ar ticles in the same number of the Recorder serves to show that the Baptist paper does not approve of candidness and openness at all it approves of morality and obedience to constituted authority. And so do we. The unfortunate Harvard Lampoon that was barred from the mails last year was a mas terpiece of cleverness and the fea tures of the comic that were objected to by the postal authorities were negligible when compared to the smut and filth that appear in other accepted publications, both college and commercial. But the fate of the Lampoon appears to have put a bee in the bonnets of many of the college editors. . " . - College comics are no longer pub lications of "humor". They tend to ward that which is suggestive, that which is filthy, and that which is daring. The point seems not to put forth good, wholesome wit. It is rather to produce risque matter that touches the very boundary of inde cency, but which doesn't quite go over the line. And college students relish it. Have all of our college comic editors been nourished, on W hiz Banks and La Vie Pari- siennes? It is our opinion that about eighty per cent of our college comics could be weeded out and American humor would suffer hardly a whit. Humor is a scarce ' sub stance, yet every college must have a comic. As a result these so-called humorous magazines are forced to resort to an extremely low order of written effort. And the average col-, lege is not even able to furnish enough of this stuff. Frequently they must draw upon their "ex changes" for help. ' The dive taken by college literary publications into the land of smut appears to be a recent departure. They formerly strove to be literary; now they strive to be sensational, This-is certainly trueiof ou campus Aiazagme. vwyt..g will be read, and anyjfng tolflit up . is apparently JHfte teuton policy. ' Devoid of a "necking-lable" puck as was printed last year, the Maga zine evidently ran the article; "These Perilious, Times," as the nearest acceptable substitute. The Biblical Recorder broadcasts to the Baptists of the state that this stu dent publication of the University is handling sex in a light and frivo lous vein. The article should never have been printed, and the Recorder is within its right in objecting to juvenile treatment of a subject of such fundamental importance ; We make a motion that the Caro lina Magazine return to the status of a publication of "literary endeavor.1 The editor of last year claimed re peatedly that there was not sufficient "literary endeavor" on the campus to make its monthly appearance possi ble. 'The Magazines that have ap pealed to date convince us that he was right. We make an amendment to our motion and call for it to be made into a quarterly, or some such, publication. ALL HONOR TO THE UNIVERSITY "All honor to the Tar Heel for telling the plain, unvarnished truth," says the Biblical Recorder, North Carolina's Baptist denominational paper. The Recorder calls this paper a 'candid college publication" that 'comes out in frank criticism of anything that occurs on the campus of the University which the editors believe should be censored." And the Baptist paper explains further that "Papers published at many in stitutions follow the policy of sup pression and are ready, to apologize for, or explain, any questionable con duct by students or, others who visit the institution." The above coming from, a denomi national paper that favors denomi national schools is of exceedingly great interest, The Biblical Recor der however has gone very far amiss. It would bestow great honor upon this student paper because it tells the "unvarnished truth ;" it. laments that 'many college papers follow a radically different editorial and news policy. ' No honor is due to the Tar Heel. It's' candidness and openness is only possible through the tolerance of the University administration.' The University not only preaches a doc trine of free thought and free speech but it does that greatest of acts- practices what it preaches. All lion or to the University! y Am u AfrV&fk following letters were receivedxtoo late to appear before Christmas. CHey are being printed sim- plBecHuse h;pveexpTession to stu dent opinion. ''Several 'unsigned letters deairngtThTaifie' subject could not be )ubIisheM n r 'JI The ' Editor " ' L It is reqriesf&l tCjtffhe following arti- cle be inserted in Afie Open Forum of the next issue of the Tab IIekl: The officials of the University have de creed that no student or students shall give a dance until after the .Caster holi days, because of the alleged excessive drinking at the Thanksgiving dances. Every true son of the University looks with extreme regret upon constant storm of abuse that his Alma Mater receives at the hands of newspapers and the people of the state of North Carolina. This abuse has given rise to a sentiment that is antagonistic to the University. As a result, there is a sentiment which causes many mothers to be unwilling for their darling boys to attend the great wicked University. They fear that their boys will return to them as sots, gam blers atheists, and reprobates. We, who know the truth about It, laugh at them, and rightly. But where are the grounds for these mothers' fears? In the articles concerning some molehill made into a mountain, which articles our newspapers conscientious, get hold of about three times a year. We do not attempt to deny that these' mothers do have some cause to fear. There are sots, gamblers, atheists, and reprobates In the University at the present time. With- itanding the temptations that boys meet at college simply hardens their charac ters as the fire tempers steel. Yet these temptations are not so numerous as Scott Fitzgerald would have us believe. Not one in a hundred of the mothers who cherish this fear ever has or ever will stop long enough to consider the fact that a very, very small percentage of the 2,500 students in the University is guilty of these "crimes." It is impos sible to get these critics of the Univer sity to comprehend this fact. No matter that the wisest thing to be done is to keep such articles from the newspapers, klhow can their being published be pre vented? In this drinking case It wouitt have been best to have had no disturb ance at all. Presumably, the Student Council and the Vigilance. Committee have summoned and meted out punish ment to the offenders. If the officials Of the University had allowed these bod ies to function as they are supposed to and if they had allowed the matter to drop there, the newspapers could have done nothing more than praise the effi- cient way in which the drinking problem is being handled here. Instead they have punished 2,500 men because six teen have broken rules. Is this what the supposedly best minds in this state of North Carolina call justice? IS IT RIGHT? , . ' Very sincerely, W. S. it Calenttat ! Saturday, December 9 7:00 P. M., Di and Phi Societies meet. Inauguration of speak t- ers. ' Sunday, December 10 ' 4:00 P. M Concert, Miss Kath I erine Riggs, Harpist Memor . ; lal Hall. ; Monday, December 11 4.-00 P. M., Playmaker try-outs, j Theatre. 6:45 P. M., Glee Club Practice, ; New West Building. .7:00 P. M., Playmaker try-outs, Theatre. 8:30 P. M, Y. M. C. A. Cabinet meeting, Y. M. C. A. 9:00 P. M., Rifle Club, Gerrard Hail. ;. . ..'.' Tuesday, December 12 -5:45 P. M., Glee Club Practice New West . 7:46 P. M., Glee Club try-outs. 8:30 P. M., Freshman Friendship ; Comncil, Y. M. C. A. 8:30 P. M., Carolina vs. Durham "YY Tin Can. . Wednesday, December 13 North Carolina Press- Association v'" in session. . Thursday, December 14 North Carolina Press Association in session. 66:45 P. M., Glee Club Practice New West Building. 8:30 P. M., Carolina vs. Wofford, Tin Can. Friday, December 15 ; 'Concluding sessions of N. C. Press Association. : 8:30 P. M., Carolina vs. Clemson, Tin Can. Saturday, December 16 8:30 P. M., Carolina vs. Guilford, Tin Can. how loath we may be to admit it, w all know that a rising sentiment against the University is being shown by the people of the state, their favor turning to other institutions In the state, that will some day offer Carolina competition. This adverse sentiment is directly trace able to the articles published in the news papers. ,, Since it is an undoubted fact that the University- cannot exist unless it has the support of the state as whole, and since the publishing of these articles is slowly but surely destroying that support, to our mind the only feas- juic soiuuon is to keep the injurious news ' from the newspapers as far as possible. But to single our argument down to the article which was published a few days ago, let us look at the benefits and injuries the University has received by allowing our drinking probation to be scandalized on the front pages of the leading newspapers of the state. The only benefit we can see is the notoriety we will get. It will undoubtedly furnish an interesting topic for gossip over bridge tables throughout the state and another subject "to be dragged through the newspapers. This kind of notoriety and fame is indeed most desirable! The injuries received are numerous. The parents of a huge majority of the stu dents here, when they read this- article, will jump to the conclusion that their sons, were drunk that Saturday night Ihey canont be blamed for jumping at such a conclusion, for most of us are fair and square with our parents, and have told them that we have taken drink occasionally, whatever that means. Won't we, who are honest with our par ents: and who were not drunk, have a sweet time convincing them of our so briety! The writer, having attended but few of Carolina's dances, but being informed by those who have attended many, holds that the past Thanksgiving dances were conducted in just as orderly manner as ever before. Many think that thev more orderly than any set of dances given during the past few years. Once every two years, when we play Virginia here and have dances afterward. th University has to cope with the whiskey problem. Some of our alumni and'visi- tors drink, some of the students too, v.t n il i . , ..i, van mere ue louna anywhere a group Of 2,500 college men from all walks of life among whom there are not at least sixteen who will consider such an occasion as the Virginia game a propi tious times become inebriated? Should 2,500 men be judged by the conduct of sixteen? No! No more than we should Judge the University o Ohio to be a moonshiner's hangout because a still wag discovered in a professor's home. Still one newspaper printed this scandal be side the article on the drinking here. is our problem on a par with the one at the University of Ohio? We are in clined to believe that the drinking prob lem here Is less serious than that of any other university in the South. Now, this article which was published. being mortally injurious to-, our Alma Mater, and being injurious to the char acter and good nftme of almost every student here. It having been To the Editor: It is very evident that the powers that be have, using the slangular expression, literally-'shined" this week in the publi cation of the article declaring that the dances here at Carolina have been called off because of drinking. I do not claim that the "shine" is due to the fact that we have to go without our dances, but, putting it mildly, the greatest indiscre tion has been shown by broadcasting to the country an exaggerated condition which, in my estimation, has done Caro lina Inore harm than anything that has happened in many, many years. f The dances, in the opinion of many visitors, with whom I have talked, were not considered by them to have been conducted on a plane as low as authori ties would have the world believe. The fact is that these people remarked that the dances were much more devoid of liquor than several they had attended at institutions in neighboring states. Carolina has been the object of' much unjust criticism during the past year or so, and many people have believed all they have heard. Just when wehave been trying our best to overcome these criticisms, and convince the public what a good old institution we do have, along comes an official declaration which would lead people to believe that here we have a veritable cesspool of human iniquities, and a student body fraught with carous ing "sots.' "" I contend that the student body here compares most favorably with that of any like institution anywhere in the world, and that our moral standards are no lower, but, on the other hand, much higher than those found at the average American university, , . ' ( ' v This gross newspaper articles has been published all over the South, and per haps in many Northern dailies. To my knowledge It was published in bold-face type on the front page x( the leading dailies of Norfolk, Richmond, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, in fact, all the-North Carolina and Virginia state dailies. It would be difficult to accurately es timate the amount of harm which this information has done to Carolina. The institution will be "low-rated" by thous ands as a result Drinking here at Carolina is done by a minority which can be dealt with lo cally without crying out to the world at large, telling them of our problem, and causing a mole-hiU to develop into a towering mountain in the public's eye. I think every Carolina man, knowing the situation better than anyone else possibly can, has had his fury and dis gust aroused because of the unjust criti cism and chagrin his Alma Mater has been, and will be, subjected to as a re sult of such a move on the part of those responsible for such distorted resports. R. H. C, PHI ASSEMBLY MEETS TONIGHT IN NEW EAST First Regular Meeting of Winter Quar ter Inauguration of New Officers Will Take Place. ; 9 NOTICE The Yackety-Yack photograph er will be here very soon to fin ish up the pictures'for this year. Be on the lookout for him, make your engagements right away, or you may be left out of the book. Fraternities please take special notice. - The Phi Assembly wiil hold it first regular meeting , of the winter quarter tonight at 7 P. M. in the New East Building. - Initiates will be received tonight and next: Saturday night, but at no other meetings of this . quarter. : All those wishing to join are urged to be present tonight. Owing to the high interest re cently taken by both old and new men many initiates are expected. .' Ml meetings 'of last quarter were at tended and there were many heated ar guments. Some of the leading debators of the campus furnished material for the arguments, thereby making it pos sible for the would-be orators to speak Intelligently and advantageously, " Not only the former .discussions point to a successful term for the Assembly, but also the efficient, officers will make the meetings interesting and instructive to all.: The following officers were elect ed at a special meeting held on December 12: S. G. Chappell, Speaker; T. E Clem mons, Speaker pro-tem; A. E. Warren, Sergeant-at-arms; J. W. Crew, Read ing Clerk. The appointment of J. F. Cooper as Chairman - of Ways and Means Committee," D. II. Dant.ler as first assistant assures the Assembly of interesting and complete programs. "Slim" Mathews with W. II. Strickland a new assistant will continue as treasur ers for the Assembly. . The above named officers will be inaugurated tonight, fol lowing which will be another of the old time hot discussions. Members are urg ed to be present and visitors are invited to attend. . "Peggy" Flournoy, of Tulanc, by making a touchdown and two extra points against L. S. U. recently, boosted his total of points to 121. Incidentally, he has the best mark in the country, leading Tryon, of Colgate, by 30 points. PRESENTING BURR NICKLE P IN HIS WORLD FAMED NATURE PKUCE n p i . - T ANDKRSOMAL3TCCF20pOOf?l 'i ' I OF THE FO DANCING STAR 1J OF INTERNATIONAL FAME at Pickwick Theatre Saturday, Jan. 9. Shows 3:15,' 4:45, ,6:40, 8:20 Admission 25 and 50 cents New Bus Schedule Effective Now Leave Chapel Hill 8:15 A. M. 9:15 10:15 11:15 12:15 1:15 P. M. 2:15 3:15 4:15 5:15 6:15 7:15 8:45 10:45 12:15 2:00 A. M. Leave Durham 7:30 A. M. 8:15 , 9:15.- -. 10:15 11:15 12:15 1:15 P. M. ' 2:15 -3:15 : 4:15 . . ' 5:15 :. . ' 6:15 -8:00 9:30 11:30 1:30 A. M. 2:48 (Sundays) On Saturdays and Sundays the schedule is every hour on the hour out of Durham and Chapel Hill. C. H. D. LINE, INC. Telephone 167
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